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This week on TED.com February 27, 2016

Talk of the week Al Gore's electrifying, optimistic (!) take on climate change 25:20 minutes · Filmed Feb 2016 · Posted Feb 2016 · TED2016 Last week, Al Gore rocked TED with one of the most electrifying talks on our planet's future you'll ever hear. He asks three questions about climate change: Do we have to change? (Oh, yes we do; stunning stats and some jawdropping footage help make his case.) Second question: Can we change? And here's the surprising part: We've already started. So then, he asks the big question: Will we change? In this challenging, inspiring talk, Gore says yes: "We're going to win this." If you've got climate-change fatigue, feeling helpless and hopeless -- take the time to watch this rousing talk on the state of Earth right now. Watch now »

Playlist of the week Apocalypse survival guide It's not the end of the world, but it never hurts to be prepared. 10 talks on surviving worst-case scenarios. Watch » 10 TED Talks • Total run time 2:38:28

THIS WEEK's TED Talks When you look at Muslim scholar Dalia Mogahed, what do you see: a woman of faith? a scholar, a mom, a sister? or an oppressed, brainwashed, potential terrorist? In this personal, powerful talk, Mogahed asks us, in this polarizing time, to fight negative perceptions of her faith in the media -- and to choose empathy over prejudice. A jawdropping look at what it's like to be Muslim in the United States right now. Watch » Can global capital markets create social change? Yes, says investment expert Audrey Choi. Private individuals own almost half of all global capital, giving them (us!) the power to make a difference by investing in companies that honor social good and sustainability. "We have more opportunity today than ever before to make choices," she says. "So invest in the change you want to see in the world." Watch » In Zimbabwe in the 1980s, Dr. Mary Bassett treated patients stricken by the AIDS epidemic. But looking back, she regrets not sounding the alarm for the real problem: inequality. Because, she says, it's inequality that makes marginalized people ever more vulnerable. Now, as New York City's Health Commissioner, Bassett takes every chance she gets to talk boldly and bluntly about equity. "We don't have to have all the answers to call for change," she says. "We just need courage." Watch » There are a few things that we all need: fresh air, water, food, shelter, love ... and a safe place to pee. For trans people who don't fit neatly into the gender binary, public restrooms are a major source of anxiety and the place where they are most likely to be questioned or harassed. In this poetically rhythmic talk, Ivan Coyote grapples with complex and intensely personal issues of gender identity and highlights the need for gender-neutral bathrooms in all public places. Watch »

Quote of the Week “ It is difficult to predict the impact of nascent technology. And for folks like us, the real reward is the journey and the act of creation. It's a continual reminder of how wonderful and magical the universe we live in is." Raffaelo D'Andrea Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future

this week on ideas.ted.com Explore the work of "space archeologist" Sarah Parcak, who finds archeological mysteries hidden in satellite images. (See the blob in this satellite photo below? What do you think it might be? Sarah has a guess...)

 

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My year of saying yes

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This week on TED.com February 20, 2016

Talk of the week Shonda Rhimes: My year of saying yes 18:44 minutes · Filmed Feb 2016 · Posted Feb 2016 · TED2016 Shonda Rhimes, the writer/producer behind Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder, is responsible for some 70 hours of television per season, and she loves to work. "When I am hard at work, when I am deep in it, there is no other feeling," she says. She has a name for this feeling: the hum. The hum is a drug, the hum is music. But what happens when it stops? In this moving talk, join Rhimes on a journey through her "year of yes" and find out how she got her hum back. Watch now »

Playlist of the week Talks for when you feel like you’re not enough Let these talks serve as a gentle reminder of your self-worth -- because sometimes that's exactly what you need. Watch » 11 TED Talks • Total run time 2:26:49

More TED Talks More than a billion years ago, two black holes in a distant galaxy locked into a spiral, falling inexorably toward each other, and collided. "All that energy was pumped into the fabric of time and space itself," says theoretical physicist Allan Adams, "making the universe explode in roiling waves of gravity." In this mind-bending talk, Adams breaks down what happened when, in September 2015, the LIGO project detected an unthinkably small anomaly, leading to one of the most exciting discoveries in the history of physics. Watch » When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations -- and that most of us don't converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great conversation: Honesty, brevity, clarity and a healthy amount of listening. In this insightful talk, she shares 10 useful rules for having better conversations. "Go out, talk to people, listen to people," she says. "And, most important, be prepared to be amazed." Watch » Raffaello D'Andrea develops flying machines, and his team's latest projects are pushing the boundaries of autonomous flight -- from a flying wing that can hover to an eight-propeller craft that's ambivalent to orientation ... to a swarm of tiny coordinated micro-quadcopters. Prepare to be dazzled by a dreamy, swirling array of flying machines as they dance like fireflies above the TED stage. Watch » Through treating everything from strokes to car accident traumas, neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch knows the brain's inability to repair itself all too well. But now, she suggests, she and her colleagues may have found the key to neural repair: taking the brain's own cells and injecting them in a damaged area, where they can grow. "With a little help," Bloch says, "the brain may be able to help itself." Watch »

Read more on ideas.ted.com Gallery: Archeological treasure hidden in satellite images Can you spot the lost city of Tanis? Rehabilitation: Why I'm teaching prisoners to code Inside the Last Mile program at San Quentin Science: We can regrow body parts ... With the help of a humble apple Book list: How dreams illuminate our lives Insightful readings from Brainpicker

Quote of the Week “ A dream job isn’t all dreaming; it’s all job, all reality, all blood, all sweat, no tears." Shonda Rhimes My year of saying yes

Catch up on TED2016 We've just wrapped our annual conference -- which means 100+ new TED Talks coming to you thourghout the year, one amazing talk per day. Read about the great stuff to come in our live conference reports.

 

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Shape-shifting technology will change work (and play) as we know it

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This week on TED.com February 13, 2016

Talk of the week Sean Follmer: Shape-shifting tech will change work (and play) as we know it 09:22 minutes · Filmed Oct 2015 · Posted Feb 2016 · TEDxCERN What will the world look like when we move beyond the keyboard and mouse? Interaction designer Sean Follmer is building a future with machines that bring information to life under your fingers as you work with it. In this talk, check out prototypes for a 3D shape-shifting table, a phone that turns into a wristband, a wriggling game controller ... Watch now »

Playlist of the week Lasers! Admit it, lasers are pretty cool. Discover how these beams of light are being used to fight against malaria and HIV, scan ancient monuments ... and even edit memory. Watch » 5 TED Talks • Total run time 1:02:58

More TED Talks Economic growth is the defining challenge of our time; without it, political and social instability rises, human progress stagnates and societies grow dimmer. But, says economist Dambisa Moyo, dogmatic capitalism isn't creating the growth we need. She surveys the current economic landscape and suggests that we have to start thinking about capitalism as a spectrum -- so we can blend the best of different models together. Watch » Gregory Heyworth is a textual scientist; he and his lab work on new ways to read ancient manuscripts and maps using spectral imaging technology. In this fascinating talk, watch as Heyworth shines a light on lost history, deciphering texts that haven't been read in thousands of years. How could these lost classics rewrite what we know about the past? Watch » We're headed towards a global food crisis: Nearly 3 billion people depend on the ocean for food, and at our current rate we already take more fish from the ocean than it can naturally replace. In this fact-packed, eye-opening talk, entrepreneur and conservationist Mike Velings proposes a solution: Aquaculture, or fish farming. "We must start using the ocean as farmers instead of hunters," he says, echoing Jacques Cousteau. "The day will come where people will demand farmed fish on their plates that's farmed well and farmed healthy -- and refuse anything less." Watch » Social justice advocate and law scholar Dorothy Roberts has a precise and powerful message: Race-based medicine is bad medicine. Even today, many doctors still use race as a medical shortcut; they make important decisions about things like pain tolerance based on a patient's skin color instead of medical observation and measurement. In this searing talk, Roberts lays out the lingering traces of race-based medicine -- and invites us to be a part of ending it. "It is more urgent than ever to finally abandon this backward legacy," she says, "and to affirm our common humanity by ending the social inequalities that truly divide us." Watch »

Read more on ideas.ted.com ICYMI: What teens really want to know about sex » Actual questions submitted to one high school teacher Economics: An experimental new way to pay for art » What happens when an economics expert and a dancer collaborate Gallery: Images from the boiling river » When Andrés Ruzo was a small boy, his grandfather in Peru told him a story with an odd detail: There is a river, deep in the Amazon, that boils ...

Quote of the Week “ Last year, a student in my class was image-processing a text we had photographed at a famous library in Rome. As he worked, tiny Greek writing began to appear from behind the text. Everyone gathered around, and he read a line from a lost work of the Greek comic dramatist Menander. This was the first time in well over a thousand years that those words had been pronounced aloud." Gregory Heyworth How I'm discovering the secrets of ancient texts

TED2016 starts Monday! We're just days away from TED's annual conference -- where we'll be recording more than 100 new TED Talks that we'll be sharing for free online all year long, one great talk per day. See the amazing speaker lineup -- and get ready to find your next favorite TED Talk!

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A simple way to break a bad habit

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This week on TED.com February 6, 2016

Talk of the week Judson Brewer: A simple way to break a bad habit 09:24 minutes · Filmed Nov 2015 · Posted Feb 2016 · TEDMED 2015 Can we break bad habits by being more curious about them? Psychiatrist Judson Brewer studies the relationship between mindfulness and addiction -- from smoking to overeating to all those other things we do even though we know they're bad for us. Learn more about the mechanism of habit development and discover a simple but profound tactic that might help you beat your next urge to smoke, snack or check a text while driving. Watch now »

Playlist of the week Survivor’s wisdom Powerful, perspective-shifting talks on what it means to live courageously. Watch » 12 TED Talks • Total run time 2:49:36

More TED Talks Computer code is the next universal language, and Linda Liukas is helping to educate the next generation of programmers -- by sparking their imaginations, and encouraging them to see computers not as mechanical, boring and complicated but as colorful, expressive machines meant to be tinkered with. Imagine a world where the Ada Lovelaces of tomorrow grow up to be optimistic and brave about technology and use it to create a new world that is wonderful, whimsical and a tiny bit weird. Watch » When Andrés Ruzo was a young boy in Peru, his grandfather told him a story with an odd detail: There is a river, deep in the Amazon, which boils as if a fire burns below it. Twelve years later, after training as a geoscientist, he set out on a journey deep into the jungle of South America in search of this boiling river. At a time when everything seems mapped and measured, join Ruzo as he explores a river that forces us to question the line between known and unknown ... and reminds us that there are great wonders yet to be discovered. Watch » When Ebola broke out in March 2014, Pardis Sabeti and her team worked on sequencing the virus's genome, learning how it mutated and spread. They immediately released this vital research freely online, so virus trackers and scientists from around the world could join in the fight while time ticked away. In this moving talk, she shows how open-hearted collaboration was key to halting the virus ... and to attacking the next one to come along: "We had to work openly, we had to share and we had to work together." Watch » How much do you know about intellectual disabilities? Special Olympics champion and ambassador Matthew Williams is proof that athletic competition and camaraderie can transform lives, both on and off the field. Together with his fellow athletes, he invites you to join him at the next meet. Watch »

Read more on ideas.ted.com Investigation: A TED speaker goes on 60 Minutes to reveal the secrets of "dirty money" » Hidden cameras reveal lawyers only too happy to exploit loopholes Weather: Are the Arctic ice caps rotting away? We may have less ice than we think -- which means wild weather ahead Inventions: The surprising ideas behind everyday inventions » How do you invent the next big thing? These inventors' stories might spark your own creativity Book list: Big ideas from TED2016 speakers » We're one week away from TED's annual conference -- which means more free TED Talks coming to you online throughout the year. Get a sneak peek via this reading list from our amazing speakers

Quote of the Week “ Let us not let the world be defined by the destruction wrought by one virus, but illuminated by billions of hearts and minds working in unity." Pardis Sabeti How we'll fight the next deadly virus

TED Talks opening night in cinemas Gather a group of friends and watch the opening night of the TED2016 conference in your local movie theater! It's an evening of brand-new never-before-seen TED Talks, performances and ideas. Find a theater near you » Watch the trailer »

 

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